Montesinos on the U.S. payroll for ten years at $1 million per year.
He sold guns to the FARC (communist guerillas) and the right wing paramilitaries
AND protected drug shipments. He was apprehended this year at a large
Venezuelan estate with 130 body guards and $250 to $400 million in offshore
bank accounts. Declassified documents showed that the DEA had been tracking
him since the early 1990s for drugs and guns, yet he remained
on the CIA payroll as an asset. WHY? The CIA says it helped track him
down, but this is false. Montesinos is calling two CIA agents as witnesses
that he was acting on their behalf when committing these crimes. That
is his defense strategy in court.